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racy of licit Khan, and had turned his attention to the siege, making 

 his whole army engage zealously therein, news reached him that Amir 

 'Umar and Mangti Khan had taken advantage of his absence, and 

 having heard of his zealous attention to the siege of Rantambhur, and 

 the extreme difficulty of capturing it, had broken out into rebellion, 

 and were now collecting an army from the people of Hindustan. 



The Sultan immediately appointed certain of the great nobles of 

 Hindustan to coerce them ; so that before the rebels had time to do any 

 mischief, they seized both the brothers, and brought them in captive 

 to the Sultan at Kantambhur. Sultan 'Alauddin was of an extremely 

 harsh and severe temper, so that he even executed both his nephews 

 himself, and scraped out their eyes with a knife just as he would a 

 piece of a melon, and exterminated their followers and dependents. 

 As for the horse and foot, who had taken service with them, some 

 fled away, and suffered great hardships, while others fell into the 

 hands of the nobles of Hindustan, and were taken prisoners. 



Description of the revolt of Haji Mould, (servant of J Malik ul 

 TTmara Falchrucldin Kotwal. 



The Sultan was still engaged in this siege of Rantarnbhur, and had 

 his whole army zealously employed in it, when Haji Maula, i Malik 

 Falchruddin,* the former Kotwal, raised a revolt in (Dihli), and caused 

 a very considerable commotion ; intelligence of which reached the 

 Sultan at Rantambhur on the third day. In the course of this insur- 

 rection, the people of Dihli, and of the royal camp, were completely 

 upset ; for the above mentioned Haji was a man of the most sanguin- 

 ary, audacious, and depraved disposition. In these days, while the 

 Sultan with his whole army was occupied at Rantambhiir, where a large 

 number were being constantly killed, and the soldiery in consequence 

 were sorely distressed, Haji Maula held the office of superintendent of 

 the crown lands of Ratol.f A person of the name of Tirmidi was the 

 Kotwal, and he was engaged in building the Badaon gate, and near this 

 gate on the inside he had erected a private domicile, in which he resided, 

 while for the transaction of the official business of the vizdrat, sheds 

 \_clihapparli(i\ had been put up in the plain of Siri, where all public 



* The final i in Mauld i is the Izdfat. Firishtah and Badaoni call him a ser- 

 vant of Fakhruddin, which his name Mauld (freed slave) also implies. 



+ Perhaps correcter Tol or Bartol. Major Puller takes the first letter as the 

 Persian preposition ba, though we expect bar, which the Ed. J3. I. has. The 

 place is not known to me. 



